Lawyer Pleads With Court to Temper Justice With Mercy for 4th Defendant “My Lord, the 4th…

Lawyer Pleads With Court to Temper Justice With Mercy for 4th Defendant “My Lord, the 4th defendant is a young woman who løst her mother at a very early age. She has had to toil night and day in an effort to become a good woman. I am pleading passionately with this honourable court to temper justice with mercy. We are not saying that she has done well, but we are asking the court to consider her circumstances.” — Lawyer to the 4th Defendant The court has sentenced the 4th defendant, Gift Raphael, to seven years’ imprisonment on Count One. The judge also sentenced her to de@th on Counts Two, Four, Six and Eight, stating that the sentence would be carried out either by hanging or through the administration of a lethal injection. The judge further stated that, if carried out by hanging, she would be hanged by the neck until de@th, before concluding: “May the Lord have mercy on you.”